Softonic fires 66% of its employees

Re:Softonic fires 66% of its employees by lleims on Monday October 27, 2014 @06:23AM (#8514690)

Author of the article here. Just wanted to share a small update to this story.

Basically, on the day of the announcement of the layoffs, Softonic also announced that it was acquiring a SF-based company: http://novobrief.com/softonic-employees-layoffs/

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Re:Softonic fires 66% of its employees by bostonpete on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:20AM (#8514833)

Is this linkbait? Seems strange to make a comment like that without mentioning the name of the other company.

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Re:Softonic fires 66% of its employees by lleims on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:36AM (#8514882)

I don't think it is and I wouldn't mind editing the comment and getting rid of the link. Sorry.

Name of the acquired company hasn't been published yet because it hasn't been disclosed.

Sorry for the confusion.

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Re:Softonic fires 66% of its employees by wolffood on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:23AM (#8514847)

Doesn't seem to be, as the article barely mentions any more information ("Silicon Valley firm specialized in scraping mobile app stores").

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